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SHIMUSH PESUKIMINDEX OF LITURGICAL AND CEREMONIAL USES OF BIBLICAL VERSES AND PASSAGES

LINKING TORAH TO TEFILLAH

The intention of this work is to provide an extensive index showing where Biblicalverses and chapters have been employed throughout Jewish liturgy and ceremonialpractices.Beginning with the Scriptural reference the student and scholar can now trace how averse, phrase, passage or section from the Torah, Prophets and Writings has been used,in whole or part, in our common and not-so-common prayers, public Torah andHaftara readings, and our many other rites and blessings.Our Sages' selection of a particular verse or passage for prayer was surely neverrandom, but was chosen because it was deemed the absolutely most perfect expressionof the specific religious and spiritual message or emotion required for that unique time,event, circumstance or ceremony. In this regard, this index should help facilitate abetter understanding of their choices by making more evident the greater Biblicalcontext wherein which that particular verse or passage resides.

WHAT IS COVERED HEREIN

This work covers verses or portions thereof from each of the three daily Prayers, theShabbos, Yom Tov and Yomim Noraim prayers and the Musafim, verses recited whenputting on the Tallis and Tefillin, Seder Korbonos (order of the offerings), Tachanun(including Viduy and Nifilas Appayim), verses said corresponding to the first and lastletter of a person's name with alternatives as added to his Amidah as per Sefer KitzurHashlah, verses said when the Torah is taken from or returned to the ark, all PublicTorah and Haftara readings in accordance with the common Ashkenazi, Sephardi andYemenite (Teimoni) customs, Shir Shel Yom (Psalm of the Day) including those for theHolidays and other special days in accordance with the custom of the Vilna Gaon (Gra)and as accepted by Ashkenazim in Eretz Yisroel, as well as those found in Dr.Seligmann Baer's Siddur Avodas Yisroel (AY), the Ma'amodos for each day of theweek, the Six Zechiros (things a person must always remember), the TenCommandments, Psalms said on each Sabbath corresponding to that week's Sidra inaccordance with Siddur Avodas Yisroel, Birkas Hamozone (Grace after Meals), Eishes

SHIMUSH PESUKIMINDEX OF LITURGICAL AND CEREMONIAL USES OF BIBLICAL VERSES AND PASSAGES

Chayil, Seudah Shelishis (the third meal on the Sabbath), Pirkei Ovos (mostlyfragments), Havdala and verses of blessing said on Motzoei Shabbos, particularly thosein the collection beginning with the words Viyiten Lechoh and Ribbon HaOlamim,Kiddush Levonah (blessing of the New Moon), Krias Shema Al Hamitah (at bedtime),Hallel, the Five Megillahs, most of the various Selichos including Viduy, many of theprayers of Rosh Hashannah and Yom Kippur, Seder Tashlich of Rosh Hashanna,Seder Kapporos before Yom Kippur, Tefilah Zakkah, the Ushpizin of Succos, the YehiRotzon before taking the Lulav and Esrog, Seder Hoshannos, Attoh Horaisoh ofSimchas Torah, the Pesach/Passover Hagaddah (mostly fragments), Seder SefirasHa'omer, Perek Shirah, Seder Hatavas Chalom (order of making good a bad dream),prayers said on Yom Kippur Koton, Seder Bris Miloh (circumcision), Seder PidyonHaben (redeeming the firstborn son), random blessings upon seeing unusual things,Psalms for the ill in accordance with the Chasam Sofer (CS) and Siddur Sfas Emes[Heidenheim] (SE), Tziduk Hadin, passages customarily said at the cemetery in EretzYisroel, and after learning Mishnayos for the deceased, and verses added by some tothe traditional Yizkor service.It should be noted that collections of verses are particularly found in prayers known asHodu, Yehi Kovod, U'voh Letzion, and Viyiten Lechoh.

WHAT IS NOT COVERED HEREIN

This work does not cover Shabbos and Motzoei Shabbos Zemiros, groupings of versesrecited on Motzoei Shabbos including Pisukei Eliyohu Hanovi, verses of Three Words,eleven verses beginning with the letter Nun, ten verses of the Ramban, three verses ofRabbeinu Yehuda Hachosid, seven verses from Isaiah beginning and ending with theletter Chof, prayers from the Zohar, Tikun Chatzos (including Tikun Rochel andTikun Leah), Shirei Hayichud and many of the Selichos which contain mostlyfragments of verses, alternative Psalms for the ill, Psalms recited during a drought, andthe plethora of different Piyyutim such as Yotzros, Ofanim, Zulos, Siluk, Krovetz forPurim, Musafim, etc.As a rule, this work also does not include those verses from where a single word or asmall handful of words are used in the Tefillah.

SHIMUSH PESUKIMINDEX OF LITURGICAL AND CEREMONIAL USES OF BIBLICAL VERSES AND PASSAGES

FINAL WORDIt was beyond the scope of this current edition to cover all provincial customs whichhave evolved among Jews over the centuries, many of which are still in current use;although I have attempted to include a great number of variations. Undoubtedly, thereare numerous local customs which are absent herein, such as alternatives in Haftarareadings as in the Italian and Romanian rites, the variants in Minhag Ashkenaz,particularly the hallowed customs of Frankfurt am Main, the many Sephardic prayersfor special occasions such as Chanukas Habayis or Zeved Habas, etc., prayers whichhave been adopted by all the various Chassidic courts, and so forth. Still, readers areencouraged to inform me of key omissions and errors for future editions which mayinclude the full verses and usages in Hebrew.Finally, in preparing this work, I found it most curious that all the books of Tanach arerepresented in our liturgy with the singular exception of the book of Nachum.

NOTE:A hyphen (-) separating chapters, e.g., Genesis 1:1 6:8, indicates that the verses therein are, in fact, usedin that order in the liturgy.However, if a hyphen only separates verses, e.g., Genesis 22:16-18 for Selichos, it only means that versesfrom this group are somewhere used, but not necessarily in same order as they are in Scriptures.

Cover page is a map of Rodelheim, Germany, 1800, contemporaneous with the time that R' WolfHeidenheim, pioneer publisher and exegete of Mahzorim, Siddurim, Pentateuchs and other basicJewish texts, was establishing his famous printing press at this location.Cover pages in this series have been prepared by Avromie Brauner abebrauner@gmail.com

SHIMUSH PESUKIMINDEX OF LITURGICAL AND CEREMONIAL USES OF BIBLICAL VERSES AND PASSAGES

SE = In accordance with Siddur Sefas Emes, Wolf Heidenheim, Rodelheim

The listed Shirei Shel Yom herein in accordance with the Gra are the typical cases and do not necessarily account forcases where the holiday falls on a Shabbos or are shifted to another day for some other reason.17Shemini Atzeres or Simchas Torah16

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Tisha BAv, read on

Upon seeing the Temple walls or the Western Wall (Kosel)SelichosSelichosSelichosPirkei Ovos 3:3, Shabbos afternoonTachanunSelichosSelichosPesach HagaddahTachanunSelichosUpon returning the Sefer Torah to the ark, Uvnuchoh Yomar